Sentence examples for mistakenly pick from inspiring English sources

It estimates that consumers pay around £334m in balance transfer fees each year, often because they mistakenly pick the wrong card, which often proves to be an expensive mistake.

Swatting can involve sending vehicles the size of small tanks into residential streets, and can frighten people into thinking they are being robbed, or they could mistakenly pick up a gun to defend themselves.

Democrats complained most loudly about the vote in Palm Beach County, where they said a ballot with a confusing layout had caused thousands of voters to mistakenly pick for Patrick J. Buchanan when they had intended to vote for Mr. Gore.

Criterion (4) was set to limit the present analysis to clear SI events during geomagnetically quiet periods not to mistakenly pick up random, highly variable periods of SYM-H during disturbed conditions as SI events.

The tint in the glasses will cause you to mistakenly pick a lot of under ripe berries.

He was even mistakenly picked up by the police for the armed robbery of a cookie store.

On top of that, many voters confused by the infamous "butterfly ballot" seem to have mistakenly picked the wrong candidate.

—conedison "There's a Karin Slaughter book about paedophilia that I mistakenly picked up as a light criminal/cop-type read some years ago.

It said: "This morning as Simon McCoy was preparing to introduce this story, instead of picking up his tablet to hold as he went to air, he mistakenly picked up a ream of paper that was sitting next to it.

Perhaps they may even hold the gadfly attentions of today's young people, who have mistakenly picked up a Sunday supplement thinking it was some kind of inky cloak, like Lady Gaga might wear.

A spokeswoman for BBC News explained: "This morning as Simon McCoy was preparing to introduce this story, instead of picking up his tablet to hold as he went to air, he mistakenly picked up a ream of paper that was sitting next to it.